A/N: Wait a minute, another episode within this month? Wow! You have got to be kidding me! Well folks, got some motivation to make another episode within November. So yay! I hope I'll find that motivation again soon! So without further interruptions, here's the 8th leg of TAR:CC! Enjoy!
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Legend:
Normal – Character's Dialogue
Bold – Character's Confessionals and Team's Placements
Italic – Setting and Character's Actions
Bold and Italic – Phil's Dialogue
Bold, Italic and Underline – Flashback Dialogues and Title
Italic and Underline – Batch Numbers, Time of Arrival and Names
Episode #8 - Curse you, Chinese Zodiac! - Jeanette
"Previously on The Amazing Race..." Phil started. "Teams traveled to the coldest part of France, Chamonix!"
"Whew dude, it's so cold here!" Brittany said while she was running.
"At the first U-turn of the race, The Colleagues used the power to stop Alvin and Simon…"
Margaret glued the picture of The Chipmunks on the board.
"It's for the best," Margaret said.
When they saw the U-turn post, they were both gasping and groaning, especially Alvin.
"I knew it! I knew it!" Alvin growling like a tiger. "They did plan all of this!"
"…but their plan backfired as The Chipmunks used their Express Pass to surpass them."
Alvin gave the express pass to the camping master and left the camping station.
"Ahhh! I forgot they have that stupid pass! We're so stupid!" Margaret said in an enraging tone.
"And this cost them the race and has been cut off from the competition!"
"Eileen and Margaret... you are the last team to arrive. I am sorry to tell you that you have been eliminated from the race." Phil announced the bad news.
"While The Adventurers achieved their first win in the race!"
"Simon and Marceline... you are team number one!" Phil declared.
"Yes! Yes! We finally did it!" Marceline was jumping in joy. "Yes!"
"Six teams remaining… who will be eliminated… next?"
(The intro is on the first chapter)
The leg kicks off with a montage of shots from the French Alps at the sky to the pit stop. After the presentation, it transitioned at the mat where The Adventurers opened up their first clue of the leg.
Marceline & Simon – departed at 12:14am
"Go fly to Lisbon in Portugal!" Marceline reads the first words of the tip.
"Teams will fly to Lisbon, Portugal. But first, they must take a train to go back to Paris where they will book their flights there. Once arrived, teams will travel first by taxi at Martim Moniz Square where they must find a Lisbon tram up the hill to Miradouro das Portas do Sol where they can find their next clue."
We see trio men playing their banjo and guitar and a girl who has the collection big frame of an art which is their next clue.
"Alright… that's nice." Marceline said.
They found the cab that they used the last leg and drove off the pit stop to proceed.
"We're at first right now… first! We would like to keep that for a little bit longer." Marceline said in the confessional.
"Hey, you have some idea about Portugal?" The girl asked.
"Ah, well…" Simon rubbed his chin, trying to recall anything about the aforementioned country. "That one's a great country for history. That's all I got."
"Ooh…" She reads the detail on the clue once more.
They arrived at the train station where unfortunately is closed for operation and they saw a sign that says it will open at 6:30am.
"Well, there goes our lead…" Marceline sighed in annoyance.
"I guess we should find a place to stay," Simon suggested as the vampire queen nodded and walked out of the barred place.
6:36AM
The sun rises from above as we take a look inside the train where the teams are all boarding on the same train. We see Luke and Karl talking about something.
"Good thing that we are on the same train! Maybe we should do something to get rid of the other teams." Karl whispered his suggestion to Luke.
"Great idea! But can we keep it to ourselves?" Luke responded.
"Sure, we hope that we could find a great flight to Portugal." Karl chuckled.
Then we saw The Imaginary Friends who have the same topic as the previous team.
"I think we should be separated from the other teams, especially The Chipmunks!" Mac started.
"Yeah, but we need another team to stay with us!" Bloo answered.
"You mean we should make an alliance?"
"I don't know actually, but I still have doubts on all of them."
"Yeah, yeah. Let's go back to our room." Mac offered.
"We had the plan settled and we hope that it won't go failed as possible," Mac said in the confessional.
Bloo responded with a yes as they closed their room to get some sleep. Then we saw the following shots of teams resting while the younger Simon reads a book in his bed as the train moved and left the station.
2:07PM
After a long trip from the snowy location of Chamonix, they arrived back at the warm Paris as they run off the big train station to find a taxi.
"Taxi!" Both Lori and Alvin called as they got their respective cabs and entered.
"Alright, to the airport, sir!" Lori reveals their destination to the driver and soon moved. "Faster please?"
"Go to the airport. Now!" Simon told their driver as they drove off the station.
Then, the remaining teams soon followed and left the station. We got a close-up look of The Chipettes where Jeanette had some stitches on her forehead.
"Last time, I got a big bump on my forehead and the blood was dripping down from my skin, that actually hurts so bad. That actually required five stitches and the injury is not that serious. I think I'm in good condition to race and I hope this will heal in the upcoming days." Jeanette told the story in her confessional.
"Well, what should we do now?" Jeanette asked her sister.
"Simple, we go to the airport and we asked an airline about the early flight to the next destination," Brittany answered, only for Jeanette to shrug.
We go to The Adventurers who were talking about their decision on booking their flight.
"Oh hey, Marcy!" Simon started the conversation.
"Yeah?" Marceline looked to her partner.
"Maybe we should ask this guy about the flight and use his phone!" Simon gestured his hand to the driver.
"Sure… we knew that's an alternative." She commented.
Cutting to The Chipmunks where they had the same idea of making a booking decision. Simon grabbed the driver's gadget to call an airline.
"Hello! We would like to have a reservation for two and the destination will be in Lisbon. Are there any available flights? And also find the earliest one!" Simon began to query the transaction.
The screen now turns into double as Marceline was also calling an airline, asking for a flight.
"Is there any earlier flights from Paris to Portugal?"
Both of their callers answered inaudibly and they both nodded.
"3:15PM…" Simon starts to list down the details.
"…will arrived at 8:20 in the evening?" Marceline also wrote down the info. "Oh, okay. We will take it, just wait for us at the airport. Thanks." She dropped the call and sends back the phone to the driver.
"Ooh, okay. We'll take that. Thanks." Simon also dropped the call and gives back the phone to the owner.
"Yes, booking in a phone is easier than booking inside the airport that actually costing us the time," Simon said in the confessional.
Both teams share a gesture of success as they carried on.
Soon, The Siblings and The Chipmunks arrived at the same time in the airport as they run inside in separate ways. The former didn't notice the latter when they started running.
"There's the counter! We should ask them." Lori saw a kiosk in her left and Lincoln followed her.
While the other teams also have arrived at the airport where The Adventurers left the other teams. This made the other team questioned their doings.
"Where are they going?" Brittany interrogated first.
"Ah, I think we know what they are doing," Luke answered.
"They are going to find their airline already." Karl automatically explained.
"Wait, but how?" Mac squeezed into the conversation.
"They just booked a flight by using a phone."
"Wait, what? How's that possible?" Bloo demanded an answer.
"Duh! By using someone's phone!" Brittany answered the blue creature's question.
"So what are we going to do now?" Jeanette added another question.
"Well, if we could find a counter, then, we could be good," Luke replied.
"Besides, the phone booking sometimes is sketchy. For example, at your reservation, when you get to the airport, you get the boot out of that flight without a valid reason. That's why we don't use that method… it sucks." Karl added.
Both The Chipettes and The Imaginary Friends clearly understood the flaw of the method as they tried to bond The Wrestlers.
"Ohhh… now that made sense to me." Bloo seemed to agree with the remark of both men.
"Okay, now time to find a flight!" Luke invited the other teams to walk with them.
Both teams agreed at their offer as they walked in the airport. As a minute passes by, they saw The Siblings at the counter, taking their tickets.
"Let's ask them," Jeanette recommended.
They are now making their way to the same counter where Luke lightly tapped the boy's t-shirt where he and Lori looked back to see the other teams.
"Hey there!" Luke waved them.
"H-Hey there too!" Lincoln shyly waves back to them, while Lori seemed to be afraid of both bald men.
"Hey bud, did you book a flight on a phone?" Karl asked the boy.
"Ah, no! We book one recently." The young boy answered and grinned sheepishly.
"Oh…"
"Can you tell the time of your flight?"
"Well, 2:30PM." Lincoln looked at his ticket.
"Oh, okay… interesting." Karl looked at his partner to make a decision.
"Well, we saw The Siblings out there and tell them about their flight. Looks like we got the flight that we needed." Luke said in the confessional.
"We see no chipmunks. So I guess we would stick to them." Bloo added.
"Yes! We asked them if they saw Alvin and Simon and they said 'no'. We are definitely locking in our flight with them." Brittany also feeling happiness.
Afterwards, the three teams bought tickets to the 2:30PM flight and grabbed them.
2:28PM
We transitioned in the airplane where the four teams arrived there and have a chit-chat with each other.
"Looking good… we don't see any other teams." Mac said.
The airplane door closed suddenly and some of them celebrated.
"Alright, that's it! The door's closed. I felt comfortable all of a sudden." Brittany leaned her chair in relief.
The airplane lifts off from the runway as it now travels to their next destination.
Back in the airport, we saw the last two teams aligned with each other and took notice of something.
"Ah, guys. Have you seen other teams around?" Marceline asks them politely.
"Well, no." The young Simon replied.
"No worries. I bet they are still somewhere at the airport, maybe struggling to find a flight." Alvin said with confidence.
"Hmmm…" The older Simon rubbed his chin. "I guess that's fine to me."
Both teams are now sitting on the bench, waiting for their flight to call them out and without knowing that they are far behind the other teams.
7:36PM
The first four teams arrived safely at Lisbon and they ran like crazy to the outside to find taxis.
"Taxi!" Mac called.
The Chipettes luckily found a vacated cab and took it.
"Martim Moniz Square?" Jeanette said their destination and driver nodded, leaving the taxi station.
"Faster! Drive faster! Cause we're first!" Brittany commanded. "And actually, I felt so good about it."
"Okay, I think this is our first time taking the first place. I think we could outlast them now, for sure." Brittany said in an optimistic tone.
"I doubted that because of the upcoming challenges today. I felt that it's not gonna go long till our lead will be gone!" Jeanette countered.
"What?! Don't say that! You actually jinxing us out!" She raised her hands in displeasure, making Jeanette startled.
While the other teams will have to find their cabs as fast as possible.
"Yo! The girls got their taxis already!" Luke said.
"Damn, dude. Those girls and their opposites are so strong." Karl admitted.
"Well, they are so agile!" Luke added.
"Taxi!" Mac yelled. "Wait a minute! There's one over there." He gestured his finger to the other side of the road.
As soon as they tried to walk to the other side, they saw The Siblings took the cab and left. This made Bloo enraged.
"What? Are you kidding me?! They stole our taxi!"
"Dude, we just have to find another one." Mac proposed.
"Fine! But they will pay for that!" Bloo said in a threatening voice and clenched his fist.
Mac only sighed and continues to walk back to the waiting line. While they saw The Wrestlers got their cab, which made Bloo more infuriated.
"GAH! Why are they getting that fast?"
"Geez, calm down a bit. We could—"
Mac tries to settle down Bloo but he got interrupted. "Come on! There is no time for the calming part, we gotta move or we're going down to the bottom!" He started running.
Mac facepalmed. "Oh Lord, please let this be temporary, I'm getting stressed right now… geez…"
The screen soon became slow as Mac shakes his head and Bloo tries to call a taxi in an aggressive way. And suddenly fades out to black, indicating for a commercial break!
Back to the show where Bloo calls for a cab in a hostile way while Mac was also yelling for a cab but in a calm manner.
"You know what's hard? Being in a team with a mad dash of voice and eyes! That is not the best idea to call a taxi!" Mac said in the confessional.
Mac's attempt was a success as a taxi came over him and the young boy whistled his partner to give the signal.
"You know Martim Moniz Square?" Mac inquires the driver.
"Yes." The driver nodded and soon left the airport.
Mac glances at Bloo who still looks angry at this time and looked back quickly.
"Are you still mad at me?" The boy asked.
Bloo didn't move nor speak, which made Mac shrugged.
"I guess he's still mad at me."
At the square, we saw The Chipettes arrived at the place where they need to search for a tram.
"Where's the tram?" Brittany tries to sight the specific vehicle.
"Isn't a tram, like a train without a barrier within?" Jeanette asked. "Because I think that's a tram for me! Let's hop on!" She hopped on the vehicle
"Alrighty then…" Brittany followed.
The tram soon moved and goes uphill. While on the tracks, they are currently mesmerizing the night lights at the heart of Lisbon.
"I think this is a great city for the artists!" Brittany said.
"Yeah, because it is one, Brit. But yeah, that looked incredible." Jeanette was focused on the night light designs around the street.
The tram suddenly stopped as both girls exited and heard a band playing their instruments with a girl and some paintings beside them. Also, they asked the girl if they had the clue.
"Do you have a clue?" Jeanette was looking into the girl.
The girl nodded and gave the painting to the team. Brittany's mouth went agape as she looked into the painting.
"I am a painter and has a potential to be an artist. I love coloring or anything about art, it is just as wide as the Earth! You can actually admire every piece of art that you have seen everywhere." Brittany said in the confessional.
Brittany and Jeanette – currently in 1st Place
"Wow! This is so cool! But where is this place?"
"Maybe we should ask someone about that?" Jeanette suggested.
"Yeah."
"Teams must figure it out that the painting is depicting the Museu Nacional dos Coches where they can find their next clue on the object of the painting." Phil gave out the detail.
They went running into the streets and tries to ask the locals for a detail about the canvas.
"Hey, excuse me? You know this?" Brittany showed the picture.
"Uhm… Coach Museum." The local said.
"Coach Museum." Jeanette tries to insert the name into her mind. "Thanks."
They continue to sprint as they went on a mission to find another taxi somewhere.
While The Wrestlers also arrived in the square where they saw a tram parking in the station as they entered the vehicle.
"Whew, dude. This place rocks." Karl said.
"Agree, but I don't know if that fits my list." Luke was unsure.
After a short ride from the tram, both men went out on a lookout for their next clue. When their eyes gazed at the performers, they went into them and to the girl.
"Yahoo! This is so cool." Karl danced while Luke grabs their next clue.
Luke & Karl – currently in 2nd Place
"It's a picture! We will ask somebody out there!" Luke said as they started running.
While they were running, they heard a man saying that he knows the place. So, they went over the local.
"You know this, sir?"
"It's the Coach Museum." The local replied.
"Oh, can you write it in the Portugal language?" Karl asked nicely.
The local nodded as Karl gave a piece of paper and a pen to write down. After that, they picked it up.
"That's long enough…" Luke said.
"Thank you, sir." Karl bowed down as they carry on and continued to run.
The Siblings was on their taxi as they asked the driver if they have arrived at their destination.
"Are we there yet?" Lori questioned.
The driver gestured the vacated sidewalk, indicating that they have arrived at the square.
"Alright, thank you." Lincoln exited the vehicle, Lori then followed suit.
They landed at the stop and saw no trams on the line.
"Great, now we are waiting…" Lori groaned and crossed her arms.
While at their taxi, The Imaginary Friends saw a team and forcefully told the driver to stop.
"It's them! We gotta cut it here!" Mac said. "Stop please."
The taxi followed as the team exited the cab and stomped into the tram stop to meet The Siblings.
"Hey, guys, what are you doing here?" Mac asked them.
"Well, there's no tram… so, we will have to wait." Lincoln replied and sighed.
"That's okay! We could go with each other, right?" Bloo commented.
"Sure… why not?" Lori responded.
"I think a little bit of a teamwork between them could be a good idea," Bloo said in the confessional.
"I guess we could be allies with Mac and his weird friend," Lincoln said.
"Yeah… but not for long!" Lori said. "I don't trust them actually, that Bloo guy is kinda acting like an old man."
"Like our neighbor, Mr. Grouse?"
"Yep… They are on the same level… I think?" Lori answered indecisively.
They successfully reached the next stop as they picked up their next clue.
Bloo & Mac – currently in 3rd Place
"Is this our clue?" Bloo scanned the painting carefully.
Lincoln & Lori – currently in 4th Place
"Definitely." Lincoln examines the picture.
"Well, we could ask someone about that image." Lori proposed.
Both teams decided to work together to solve the clue that they have acquired. While in the museum, The Chipettes arrived there to begin their expedition on their next clue.
"I'll go for the right, you go left." Jeanette took in charge as Brittany followed and began searching.
"No… not that… nope…" Brittany looked every carriage possible but nowhere to be found. "There's nowhere to be found!" She yelled.
Jeanette gestured her to keep her voice in silence. "No shouting. Just keep looking…"
Brittany frowned and continues to find their objective.
"No! Nah-uh! Not that…" Jeanette was continuing her searching but almost got stumbled when she looked back to see a clue box beside the statue. "Hey, Britt! Found it." She called her sister in a loud but mumbling tone.
"Oh, alright…" Brittany went to her sister and see her ripping the clue.
Brittany & Jeanette – currently in 1st Place
"Detour…" Jeanette began reading the details. "Tiles or Miles?"
"At this leg's Detour… teams will have to choose between two tasks that resemble and commemorates the rich history of Portugal. Their choice: Tiles or Miles?" Phil started explaining.
"Tiles… teams will have to assemble a life-sized puzzle made of porcelain tiles. If they can manage to put together all pieces without falling…" Phil glances at the finished puzzle and we saw a man showing the clue. "…this tile expert will hand over their next clue."
"Miles… teams will have to use a giant compass and use it to calculate the overall distance of 10 spots that was traveled by the country's famous explorer, Ferdinand Magellan on the large compass rose… Once they had the answer and their answer is within the 500 nautical mile limit of the exact 16,500 nautical miles, which is the correct answer…" Phil looked to his left to see an impersonator of the explorer, showing the clue to the screen. "…Mr. Magellan will give them their next clue."
"We're going with tiles!" Brittany chose their option.
"Well, fine with me. I can deal with puzzles." Jeanette shrugs in agreement.
"Alright, let's do this. This is going to be a fun challenge!"
They walk to leave the museum to enter their taxi.
"I didn't see any teams behind us. That usually means that teams got screwed up…" Brittany started the confession.
"…or they are on their way," Jeanette added and Brittany frowns at her remark. "What? That's possible!"
Another team showed up in the form of The Wrestlers. They went into the very end part of the carriage display statues and saw the clue box immediately. Luke picks one in the box and opens it.
Luke & Karl – currently in 2nd Place
"It's a Detour! Tiles or Miles?" Luke reads it aloud. "Let's do miles?"
"Miles? Yeah, miles." Karl agreed.
"Alright, time to explore some places…"
After deciding, they went out of the building to go back to their cab and moves out instantly. While at The Chipette's cab, both girls look out at their windows to see if they had seen the name of the destination, but that name didn't appear yet.
"Have you seen one, Britt?" Jeanette asked.
"Oh, nothing!" Brittany paused and detected something in her window. "Wait a minute! That's it!"
"Please stop here!" Jeanette decreed as the driver obeyed and stopped his taxi. "Thanks!"
"Come on, let's go!"
They run in a small street to enter a door-free ceramic center and was staggered at the unique porcelain creations.
"Wow! I really love this place! I just keep staring at these… art! They looked so exceptional!" Brittany said on the confessional.
"I can tell that Portugal is a great place to stay for the artists and for the amateurs," Jeanette added.
"Okay, we gotta pick one." Brittany took in charge of choosing. "Let's do that one!"
They started by gathering the puzzle pieced and examined every fragment. Jeanette already saw a piece that resembles a hair and assembles it on her side.
"Got the hair!"
"That was quick…" Brittany was grasping a piece and observes it very carefully. "Hmm… this one looks like a dress."
"There are many dress pieces here… maybe you could focus on the upper body first?" Jeanette advised.
"Okay, okay, yeah…"
We are now back to the museum where two teams arrived there and started finding the clue.
"Where's the clue, where's the clue?" Mac mumbled.
"Nope…" Lincoln concluded.
"Not here, not—"
"It's here!" Bloo shouted.
The remaining participants went to the source of the cry and they saw Bloo discovered the clue box. Bloo instantly clawed one, while Lori took one also.
Bloo & Mac – currently in 3rd Place
"Detour…"
Lincoln & Lori – currently in 4th Place
"Tiles or Miles?" Lori reads the question.
"What are you going to do, guys?" Lincoln called them to solicit their decision.
"We're doing miles!" Mac answered.
"Well, we gotta go tiles," Lori suggests.
"Looks like we're going on separate ways…" Lincoln concluded.
"Choosing a different option is like a great idea to cover up the pressure of the race. It's kinda like a strategy!" Mac said in the confessional.
"Well, their choice is their choice, and our choice is our choice," Lori said.
"Faster please, sir!" Mac pleading the driver.
"Let's go fast! We're in a race!" Lincoln appealed.
While The Wrestlers arrived in the wide square of Padrão dos Descobrimentos where they looked at the extensive size of the map at the ground.
"Damn, dude! This map's big!" Luke said.
"Yeah, but we should find the compass to start," Karl recommended.
"Okay, okay, let's find it."
They walked and began searching for the tracing instrument.
8:45PM
The second flight soon landed on the runway as the remaining two teams dashed their way to the taxi station and they called for one respectively.
"Taxi!" All of them hollered in calling one.
Soon, taxis arrived and both teams entered their cab and proceeded to advance to the next destination.
"We need to go faster! There's a team behind us!" Marceline entreats their driver.
"Follow them! Quick!" Alvin yelling at the driver.
"Alvin! Don't burst your tone on the man!" Simon retorted. "You're pressuring him!"
"Don't worry… I got this." The driver squeezed into the near-argument talk.
"See?! He's not worried about—WHAA!"
Simon chuckled. "You always forgetting one of the golden rules of taking a taxi – always wear seatbelts!"
Alvin groaned off-screen. "Good job, sir… and good job of reminding that… Simon…" He said his name in a mumbling voice.
"I would never get rid of the moments where Alvin always executes a gaffe! It's always a classic!" Simon said in the confessional.
Alvin screamed in surprise as he falls down from the seat, due to the unexpected upgrading speed of their cab. While the other teams were shocked to see that they were surpassed by the other team.
"Oh crap! They just passed us!" Marceline exclaimed.
"Can you go faster like them, sir?" Simon asks politely.
The driver didn't respond.
"Well, I guess he didn't take English class…" Simon concluded.
Marceline sighed. "Not again…"
"I always remember our mistakes for the past legs, I always thought that was just a memory, but sometimes, those things haunt me for real…" Marceline flinched as she confessed.
At the Miles Detour, The Wrestlers are currently measuring the third and fourth destination where they observed and counted.
"Cape Verde and Rio de Janeiro are that far?" Luke inquired.
"Well, yeah. Africa and South America are just that damn far. But how many though?"
"2649." Luke wrote the number into a paper. "Alright, next stop…"
While didn't they know that the fact that The Imaginary Friends arrived in the monument. And they passed them to find the big compass.
"Wow… that's a long measuring tool! I can't believe it!" Bloo exclaimed.
"Yeah, but the good thing is we caught up to them," Mac said while running. "But what can I say, we are just that good of a miracle!"
At the other Detour challenge, The Chipettes just completed the middle part of the puzzle as they started figuring out the bottom part of the porcelain creation.
"Alright, wow, they all look similar to me," Brittany muttered.
"Okay, we need to focus! Just compare every piece to that…" Jeanette gestures her finger to the left side of the puzzle.
"Okay, okay…"
Brittany tried and tried to look for the correct piece as she carefully scans every piece that she has gotten.
"I thought the puzzle was kind of an average task. But my head is starting to ache, making me unfocused on the task." Brittany said in the confessional. "Every piece of the puzzle looks all the same thing!"
"Mentally… yeah, this challenge bums me out of nowhere!" Jeanette agrees to the remark of her sister.
While still trying to complete the puzzle, The Siblings arrived at the porcelain museum where they met the struggling girls.
"Hey, guys!" Lori waves her hands to the girls, but they didn't respond instantly.
"Guess they are so busy, that they might not hear us…" Lincoln assumed.
"Hey!" Brittany unexpectedly barking at the new arriving team. "Can you guys stop distracting us? We're trying to focus here! We've been here for twenty minutes!"
The Siblings startled when they saw the blonde whimpering while solving. Then, Jeanette came in next.
"23 minutes to be exact!"
"Come on! We're gonna start right there!" Lincoln and his sister picked the puzzle that is in front of the other team.
"We need to assemble this one quickly!" Lori exclaimed.
While the other team found some pieces that are fitted for the puzzle.
"Alright… 13 pieces to go…" Jeanette sighed to give herself some fresh air.
The Chipmunks arrived at the band performers where the girl gave the big clue to the small guys.
"Did you see the adventure geeks?" Alvin looked to his view to see if there is any track of the other team.
"Nope. Not that I can sight any." Simon was also observing the site.
"Alright, we need to get out here before they can catch us!"
Both boys got out of the site and entered their taxi.
While in the enormous park of Lisbon, the two teams are still trying to put numbers into their heads. The Wrestlers were in the 7th spot of the destination that needed to be measured in distance. While The Imaginary Friends are trying to figure out the measurement of the first one to the second one.
"Do you have the count?" Bloo questioning his friend.
"Hold on…" Mac narrowing his eyes to look at the compass and he concludes. "It's 803."
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah, I just wrote it down."
"Okay then, let's switch positions."
"We got this great strategic idea on our minds and we need to do this." Bloo shares their idea in the confessional.
"We just switch places after we got the number!" Mac added.
Mac follows the command of his teammate as they swapped roles which made him the measuring man, while the blue creature gets to know the distance.
"It's 4295 nautical miles," Luke answered then he puts the number in the paper.
"Two more and we're outta here!" Karl said as he adjusted the tool into the next spot.
Somewhere in the museum, we saw The Chipmunks opening and grabbing their clue to read the next details.
Alvin & Simon – currently in 5th Place
"Tiles or Miles?" Alvin reads the question. "We're doing Tiles! I picked first!"
"Well, ho-ho-ho-kay. You chose our Detour and I can choose both of them, honestly." Simon was faking a chuckle and sarcastically retorting Alvin.
Simon started laughing hysterically. "I can't move on to that taxi downfall that he just did! Hahaha!" He kept laughing until he holds his stomach and starts wheezing. "That's en-ter-tain-ment… haaa…"
Alvin's eyes were daggered in the nerdy chipmunk's eyes as they left the museum.
At the other side of the Detour, The Chipettes are on the verge of finishing the puzzle as they had four pieces.
"Finally, we are down with a few…" Brittany breathed.
"Okay, this one goes here." Jeanette inserts the next piece.
While the other team is trying to team up on putting the right pieces.
"We got the head," Lincoln said.
"Okay, we need to concentrate more, the puzzle looks the same." Lori grimacing at the pieces.
After a minute, The Chipettes got up and went to the puzzle expert for checking.
"Sir, please check!" Jeanette supplicating the man in the glass.
That particular person was looking at their piece of art and scanning every portion of the puzzle. After a few seconds of silence and suspense, he showed the clue to the girls.
Brittany & Jeanette – currently in 1st Place
"Yes!" Brittany jumped in celebration as she grabs the clue.
"I gotta admit that looks great when we built that." Jeanette looks over again to their work while Brittany opens the clue.
"Teams will now travel by taxi 10 miles to Clube Português de Tiro a Chumbo where they will find their next clue!" Phil spoiled the next destination.
"Okay, come one! Let's go!" As Brittany said that they went out to their taxi who waited their patiently.
While Lincoln and Lori are done with the neck part of the puzzle as they continue to solve the puzzle.
"Geez, this is so hard!" Lori waved her hands in the air. "This is just ridiculous!"
"Ugh! This is so irritating!" Lincoln with the aforementioned look. "C-can we take a hint or something?!"
"I don't know!" Lori rubs her forehead, trying to soothe herself out.
Both of them showing their irking mood as the screen goes slow-mo as it fades to black, meaning that it's time for a break!
We are back to the show where The Adventurers finally arrived in the first point of the leg.
"Finally! After a long time!" Marceline said as she grabs the big painting.
Marceline & Simon – currently in Last Place
"Alright, we got to do some big catching up!" Simon said.
"But we need to ask first where this is," Marceline suggests.
"Okay, but we need to have a detail as fast as possible."
They asked a certain man for a detail on their clue.
"Coach Museum?" The local spoke up.
"Coach Museum? Okay… thanks." Marceline came in next. "That's it, right?"
"Yep, I guess. Okay, let's get some taxi here!"
They began running as they try to find a vacated taxi as soon as they can.
A few minutes after, The Wrestlers are on the threshold of ending their struggle on Measurement. As they assumed their last guess on the last spot.
"250… the last one…" Luke huffing on his breath while saying the answer.
"Come on, we gotta add them all!"
They looked at the data that they had gathered and they started counting but it was on a mumbling tone.
"Math is the hardest crap that we have ever taken when we're teenagers. Everyone groaning and getting a saving grace—I mean saving grades is one hell of an achievement!" Luke collected their memories and shares it to the audience.
"Man, that was one of the darkest days! I thought we would take another year for that!" Karl added.
Luke shook his head as he thought something. "And no, we're not at the same school. We just hated it." Karl reacts with a shrug.
"I think that's it…" Karl was looking at their presumable answer for the last time and looked at his partner, which responded with a nod.
Without a time to waste, they gave the paper to Mr. Magellan where he looked at their answer. Their answer was 16,441. The guy in the costume gave a thumbs up as both men high-fived.
Luke & Karl – currently in 2nd Place
"Alright!" Luke cried and the impersonator gave the clue to the big guy. "Thanks!"
"Make your way to Club… Portuguese. De-tiro-a-Chumbo…" Karl reads the name of the next destination slowly as he doesn't identify the real pronunciation. "Come on!"
They stormed out of the wide monument square while Karl muttered something.
"Man, math still sucks!"
While the other team doing the same Detour as The Wrestlers were on the 8th destination as Bloo was the measuring man and Mac was the measurement finder.
"Okay, we're almost there!" Bloo said while holding the compass on his hands.
"All we gotta do is just measure and when I got the first measurement quickly, that's our final answer! You got that?"
Bloo hummed and rubs a finger under his chin. "Well, yeah…"
Mac knew the body language of his buddy and slaps himself on the face in response.
While back to the other side of the Detour, The Siblings are half-finished with their puzzle as they continue to figure the right shards of tiles.
"Lori, I have to be honest with you…" Lincoln starting the conversation.
"Hmm?" The girl never bothered looked up and looks at the puzzle pieces.
"Do you play puzzles?"
Lori finally looks up to his brother and her eyebrows were furrowed as she was confused at what her little bro had just asked to her.
"Okay… Lincoln sometimes creeps me out with these random questions while we do something." Lori said in the confessional.
"Well, I was asking that because everything was quiet. I swear." Lincoln raised his hand.
"Well, what about the time where I was playing bowling and suddenly, you called me on the phone and asking 'what's my favorite part of the body'!"
"That was because it's my homework at the time at Science! My teacher sometimes gave out the weirdest works to us! I swear!" He used his another hand to rise it up as he gave an explanation.
There was silence for a few seconds until the tall girl spoke. "You're still creeping me out…" She crossed her arms, frowned and glances to the other side to avoid eye contact with her weird sibling.
While at the Museum, The Adventurers found the clue box as Simon picks one and opens it for the team.
Marceline & Simon – currently in Last Place
"Tiles or Miles?"
"Miles, obviously." Marceline shrugged as he obviously knew what her partner would choose.
"Well, you read my mind, partner. Come on!"
They left the building and entered the taxi. Suddenly, the screen transitioned to a park that was filled with lights as it was 9:00pm or late. Then, we saw a team arriving there and grabbing the clue from the box.
Brittany & Jeanette – currently in 1st Place
"It's a Roadblock! Who has a hand for slings and arrows?"
Phil was at the Roadblock site and started. "At this Roadblock, teams will have to go back through time as they will use one of the weapons that were used during medieval times to hunt animals or to target an intruder… the ballista! One team member will put first a suit of armor and use the big arching device to fire an arrow through a shield 150 feet away. Once it hits successfully…" Phil grabs a shield that was hit with an arrow. "...this knight will give their next clue."
"You do it, Jeanette!" Brittany decided.
"But, why me? I don't even know how to precise a big weapon!" Jeanette protested.
"Well, I can't afford to scrape my nails off!" Brittany showed her pink-colored nails. "That would ruin my beauty!"
Jeanette sighed in defeat. "Fine, but if I miss a few many times, you're the one responsible for our first place loss!"
Brittany responded with a chuckle and waves her hand. "Come on! If that happens… besides, this could be easy for you."
Jeanette went over to the armor selection where she chose the size of her suit and obviously picks up the small one.
"It's great to see taking a challenge from the past, that was some nostalgia right there. But using a big ballista? Pfft. As if! I would rather use the classic bow and arrow instead." Jeanette angrily ranted in the confessional.
She made her way to the big weaponry as she tries to aim the shield carefully. Then in an unexpected moment, she accidentally presses the trigger which made the arrow landed on the grass making the audience cooed in disappointment.
"Come on, Jeanette! Get faster!" Brittany yells which made her sister frowned in reaction.
"Brittany won't do it because her nails are precious, that's why!" Jeanette grumbly said as she puts another arrow inside of the weapon.
At the Miles Detour, The Imaginary Friends are now calculating all the numbers that they had assembled and started adding one another.
"Hmm…" Mac wrote down the first number at the bottom. "That's 0… then… 3… 4… 16! 16,430!"
Mac looks one more time at his paper to check to see if they had some errors. After checking it properly, they made their way to the impersonator.
"That's gotta be it, sir!" Bloo said to the tall guy.
For some reason, the imitator rips off the paper and drops it immediately on the ground, which made both of them bemused.
"Wait, what? That's not right?" Bloo asking Mr. Magellan and grabs the paper. "I think that's right, isn't it?"
Mac then snatches the answer sheet to observe it one more time when he noticed something different.
"Wait a minute…" He wrote down a number. "The zero! I wrote it down though…"
"Well, your writing sucks. He can't even see the zero!" Bloo waves his hands in the air.
Mac only reacted with a sheepish chuckle and passed the paper to the clone again. Then, he showed the clue to the team.
Bloo & Mac – currently in 3rd Place
"Finally!" Bloo said it out loud as he rips the clue to read it quietly.
"Okay, now let's get out of here!" Mac offered as they left the monument for good.
At the puzzle center, The Siblings were now finished with their puzzle, presumably. They called the expert for a verdict. After a few seconds of silence, he showed the clue as both team members clapped and the oldest of them picks up the clue, opening it to view the next tip.
Lincoln & Lori – currently in 4th Place
"Make your way to Clube Português de Tiro a Chumbo and search for your next clue." Lori reads it aloud. "Alright, come on!"
They left the tile center and make their way back to their taxi and moved out. While they didn't see another cab stopping by at the spot where the taxi of The Siblings was parked. A chipmunk went out, followed by another one.
"Can you stay with us for a few minutes? We double your money!" Simon offered as he closes the door to enter the tile center.
"Okay, puzzles… this is looking good… and hard!" Alvin was staring at dozens and dozens of pieces of a puzzle.
"Come on, we don't wanna waste complaining about something abstract!"
They started separating the assembled pieces as they pick up the pieces quickly. While at the Roadblock challenge, The Wrestlers arrived there where they opened up their clue.
Luke & Karl – currently in 2nd Place
"Roadblock. Who has a hand for slings and arrows?" Karl reading the question. "You wanna do it, bud?" He glances over to his partner.
After a peaceful pause, Luke responded simply with. "Sure."
"Okay, you go, man! I'm counting on you!" Karl started the cheering even though his bro wasn't finished reading the details.
The big guy of the team went over to the armor galore and dresses up as a knight.
"Looking good there!" Karl shouted.
While Jeanette is still struggling at the challenge, she was on her 11th attempt of trying to make a perfect target. She pushed the trigger and the arrow went almost between shields, making herself infuriated and growling.
"What was that, Jeanette?" Brittany asking in anger.
"I just did what I did! And it didn't hit those… stupid metal shields!" Jeanette snapped and spammed the grass with her stomps.
While Luke opened his left eye to make sure his target was perfect.
"Okay, time to pull you up!"
When he pressed the trigger, the arrow shot straightforward at his first and only attempt. The crowd cheered for the tall dude and Karl also cheering. Jeanette gasped in surprise as she saw the other team member did the challenge successfully that quick, while her partner's face was freezing in shock.
"I cannot believe this is easy!" Luke admitted.
The knight offered the clue to Luke as he clawed his hands to the shield and made his way back to his partner.
"Wow! You pulled up that quickly!" Karl praises his buddy as Luke revealed the clue in the back of the shield.
Luke & Karl – currently in 1st Place
"Make your way to the next pit stop!"
"Teams will now make their way to Castelo des Mouros, the pit stop of this leg of this race. Teams will find me here at the top of this 9th-century castle, the last team to arrive…" The screen zooms out Phil to see where he is standing. "…may be eliminated."
"Alright, win another one for sure!" Karl exclaimed. "Let's do it!"
The first team left the site to enter their taxi while Brittany continues to encourage her sister to continue but in an antagonistic way.
"Jeanette! The other one got it quicker than you! Focus!"
"Step out of it, Brit! The boys just seize the first place! You know what I said about earlier about me failing the challenge? THIS IS YOUR FAULT!" Jeanette continues to flare up and yelled the last sentence loudly.
Brittany's face went from a frown to insulted.
"Jeanette! What are you talking about?"
"I don't care about getting first anymore! I don't care about you and your rage fest! I don't care for everything!" Jeanette continues to fume her frustrations over the blonde chipmunk.
"Why don't you just shut up?" Brittany fought back.
"HOW ABOUT YOU SHUT UP? I AM FOCUSING!" Jeanette smacked the ballista and the trigger went pressed unexpectedly, missing the shield once again. "AHHH!" She yelled.
For the first time ever in her life, Brittany's face becomes in fear as she looked at her sister's crazy outburst.
"I can't believe my eyes… Jeanette went crazier and crazier than ever I thought it would be! I thought that this challenge is her breaking point." Brittany said in the confessional.
At the puzzle challenge, The Chipmunks are on the verge of ending the task as they were a few pieces left at the floor to complete the puzzle.
"Okay, this was faster than I thought," Alvin said.
"Well, it only goes fast if you don't interfere me for the whole time," Simon responded.
"Come on! I'll take those pieces in! I'm sure we will get penalized for this! This isn't even a Roadblock!" Alvin countered.
Simon stopped the puzzle as he stared at Alvin who was actually right about the rules. The genius chipmunk sighed in defeat.
"Alright, alright… you'll get the job done." Simon sat down. "I forgot that rule was existing."
"Yeah, genius!" Alvin said in a sarcastic tone as he started assembling the pieces.
After a minute of peace and quiet, Alvin thinks he got the pieces right. He stood up to call the puzzle man to observe their piece. After taking the inspection thoroughly, the expert showed a clue to them.
Alvin & Simon – currently in 5th Place
"Thanks." Alvin reached out for the clue and opens it. "Make your way to…" He paused as he doesn't know how to read the name of their next place.
"We'll just show it to the taxi." Simon frowned as he gave a recommendation.
They left the puzzle expo and the screen transitions to the other side of the Detour as The Adventurers are on the 4th spot and continues to measure every spot.
"Alright, just stop right there," Simon commanded to Marceline as she suspends her movements for seconds and the explorer man wrote down the number on the paper. "11… Alright, go to the next one!"
Marceline followed the instruction as she stomped the compass to the next spot as they continue to distance between destinations.
At the Roadblock, we saw two teams arriving there as they picked up their clue to unseal the tip.
Bloo & Mac – currently in 3rd Place
"Who has a hand…" Mac reads the question first.
Lincoln & Lori – currently in 4th Place
"…for slings and arrows?" Lori finishes the question.
"I guess I can do it." Mac volunteers himself as he shrugs confidently.
"I know you like these games, Lincoln!" Lori looks over to her brother.
"Well, okay. I'll do it." Lincoln simply accepted.
Both Mac and Lincoln went on to wear their costumes.
"This challenge will be a piece of cake for me! I love doing these task! When I play video games more and more, the more I wanted to try it for real!" Lincoln grinned at his confessional.
"I got no experience on using the big bow and arrow thing, although it isn't bow and arrow literally," Mac added.
Both of them saw Jeanette failed another attempt and shrieking in vexation. This made them grimaced and cringed.
"I was surprised that Jeanette and Brittany are still on the Roadblock, especially for Jeanette! She was angry and her tantrums are kinda intimidating." Mac said in the confessional.
"Come on, Mac! You can do it!" Bloo clapping as he tries to gain attention to his partner.
"Lincoln! Let's go!" Lori also cheering for her little brother.
Lincoln presses the trigger and the arrow went overboard to the wall and cursed. While Mac also got the same predicament as the white-haired boy.
"Good grief, this thing heavy!" Mac exaggerates at the heavy weapon.
While The Wrestlers arrived at the parking lot where they started looking for details for the Pit Stop.
"Can you see some signs?" Luke was asking Karl.
"Can't see it, dude!" Karl answered. "Wait, there it is! At the gate!"
The started running towards the large gate and enters the park filled with trees. Fast forward to the slope and curvy, they saw Phil and a man at the mat as they boosted their speed. After a few moments, they stomped the mat to greet Phil.
"Welcome… to Portugal." The man greeted them in his own dialect.
"Thanks!" Karl shakes hands with the man beside Phil.
"Luke and Karl… you are team number one!" Phil declared them as winners.
Luke & Karl – 1st Place; arrived at 10:42pm
Both men saying "YES!" and executed their high fives to each other.
"As the winners of this leg of the race, you both won from Travelocity and you're going to... Zagreb in Croatia!"
Both boys cooed at the detail of the price.
"Spend 3 nights at the 4-star Zagreb Nature Hotel and receive unlimited European buffet and a round-about trip to the city within those 3 nights."
"Wow, okay." Luke chuckled.
"Congratulations on your second win on the race, what are the chances of both of you coming at the later legs and the final leg?"
"We can say that we got the whole of ourselves on our hands!" Luke responded with a smile. "That would be sweet."
"Sweet, it is." Karl gestured their signature taunt in the air. "Too sweet."
At the Detour, The Adventurers just finished their measuring configuration as they pass the final answer to the impersonator. With the blink of an eye, he showed the clue to the team.
Marceline & Simon – currently in Last Place
"Thanks!" Marceline picks up the clue and opens it.
"Come on! Let's go!" Simon offered and waves his hand.
They left the monument to go back to their cab and told their next destination quickly and soon moved out.
While another team showed up to the battleground as one of them picks up the clue.
Alvin & Simon – currently in 5th Place
"Roadblock…"
"I'll call the shots!" Alvin steps up to the challenge as he made way to the armor selection. "Wait a minute…"
Alvin took notice of the landscape of the place and his eyes went expand as he saw the other teams doing the challenge.
"Simon?" Alvin called out his brother while he didn't receive any response in return. "Did we took the last flight?"
"Yeah, pretty sure with that, Alvin. Now come on let's go!" Simon yelled out.
As per other participants, they were stuck at the accuracy contest. Lincoln took his 7th arrow into the air as it almost came near on a shield.
"Ahhhh! Dang, it!" Lincoln asking to no one.
Lori claps simultaneously. "Go Lincoln! Before it's too late!"
While Mac concentrated his aim to the weapon as he tries to stabilize the old wooden mechanism.
"Let's go, dude!" Bloo cheers his friend up.
When he pulled the trigger, the odd creature looked at the target site as he saw that his arrow finally hits a shield. The audience cheered and clapping for the small dude. He danced and cooed in celebration, went to the shield that got caught with his arrow and went over to his teammate.
Bloo & Mac – currently in 2nd Place
"Let's go, dude!"
While the only girl on the sides was Jeanette who has botched more than 20 attempts at this task. Every attempt that she fails, she always earned a scream, a moan, a shriek, or any high-piercing yells that she ever exhales under her breath.
"Why am I doing this?! Seriously! I have been here for hours! This is the worst challenge I have ever taken! Curse you, Chinese Zodiac!" Jeanette fulminated and looks at the sky, as it was at its fault.
"Jeanette… I think you're not okay…" Brittany's voice was now filled with concern.
"Not okay? Of course 'am not! What do you think I am? A robot with unlimited energy?"
Her rage started to focus on the screen and Brittany's unease emotion and the screen disappears into a black screen; representing for a commercial break!
Her tirade continued and went inaudible as Alvin took notice on the odd behavior of her friend, then starts focusing on aiming to the shield.
"When I took the challenge it reminds me of every zombie movie, even though Simon calls those as an image of a thought. But come on! If an apocalypse happens, I know Simon will call me to bust those brainless freaks!" Alvin told a story in his confessional.
The cap-headed furry presses the trigger as the arrow speared towards to the shield within seconds. The audience clapped and cheered for the boy.
"Yes! Got 'em!"
Jeanette was confounded at the sequence and also Brittany was also in a state of disbelief then growls when he picked up the shield and started running from his spot to his brother's spot.
"See that? Luck's a top notch!" Alvin sends a cocky grin to Brittany and dances for a while.
She reacted with a clenched fist. "I'll get you!"
Alvin & Simon – currently in 3rd Place
"Come on, Alvin! Bring up the clue!" Simon hollered as Alvin went pass to the other teams.
But he stopped at Jeanette who just failed another turn and groaned violently. He sighed and pokes her back, which she turned to meet her unusual eye contact.
"What do you want?" She asked blatantly. "I know you're trying to distract me all of the things and—"
"Do you want a hint?" He asks her in a polite way.
Jeanette didn't answer the question as she assumes that it was a rhetorical and a trick question.
"Exhale slowly and squeeze the trigger." He simply gave away the advice as the girl in the ponytail still doesn't have any retort in store. "Good luck." The cool chipmunk winks at her and soon left her.
Alvin made his way to Simon in which the latter has many questions to voice out.
"Hey, what just happened there? Why Jeanette looked so weird? What about h—"
"I'll answer to that later on the taxi! Come on!" Alvin urges as they left off the venue.
While another unsuccessful shot for Lincoln was seen and started to get irritated. While Jeanette froze for a while in her place and she thought about the information that she caught thanks to Alvin. She had an obvious doubt on that, but she was hesitating to finish this grueling mission. So she finally took the guide over her as she picked up an arrow and inserts the pointy weapon inside the ballista.
"So, Alvin gave me a guide about taking a perfect shot on the Roadblock. But at this point where I'm uncertain on making another failed shot, I gladly took the advice..." Jeanette starts the confession.
She narrowed his only eye to make sure it was a perfect angle to shoot on. She breathed heavily and squeezes the trigger like what her friend said. The arrow soon made its way to a shield which received a loud cheer and claps for her determination. When she looked at the shot that he made, she was amazed at how Alvin's tips and tricks worked successfully and how she made the shot perfect, or both. While Brittany was also clapping with the crowd and cheered her heavily.
Brittany & Jeanette – currently in 4th Place
"…then I made the shot… Wow, that really worked at all! Alvin… thank you so much for the tip! I couldn't have done it without your concern over me." She smiled innocently.
Jeanette went her way to her shield which she made her way to Brittany.
"You did it, Jean!" Brittany suddenly embraces her sister.
"Get off of me!"
The blonde furry changed her emotions into a surprising one when she heard those words and shoves her as she still holds a grudge face on her.
"What's the matter with you? You just did the Roadblock!"
"I did. But you didn't help me… at all…"
Brittany kept her shocked face as she was bewildered at her sister's actions.
"I don't know what was going on her mind? I don't even know how to react to that!" Brittany said in the confessional.
"What are you talking about? Of course, I helped you out! Why are you blaming about?" Brittany argued back.
Jeanette hissed. "I don't wanna talk about it! Come on, just follow me already!" She requested indignantly.
After the tension has been toned down, Lori saw the whole thing in her sight as she gave a concerned look on the team, especially the enraged genius. Then quickly moved to focus on Lincoln who just missed another shot as she sighed and stared to the camera.
"You know… everything falls apart. I just can't say the right words over everything I see. Poor girl, just stressing herself out." Lori was referring to the fuming chipmunk as she remarked with a bit of concerning tone.
The next thing we saw is that The Imaginary Friends who are still on their cab as they started complaining about the long trip.
"We've been here for a long time!" Bloo started.
"Yeah, we're gonna be in trouble if our driver doesn't know the Pit Stop!" Mac agrees then asks the driver. "Hey sir, you know Castelo des Mouros?"
The driver nodded but however, they didn't buy the answer.
"We're really in big trouble," Mac concluded.
Back to the Roadblock challenge, we saw the last team arriving there where they grabbed the clue and took notice of the volume of the clues inside the box.
"Wait… Are we last?!" Marceline gasped. "What the heck?!"
"Come on, I know we can do it!" Simon opens up the clue. "It's a Roadblock! Who has a hand for slings and arrows?"
Marceline & Simon – currently in Last Place
"I'll do the challenge." The vampire volunteered.
"Okay, come on! We don't wanna get eliminated!"
Marceline started the challenge by wearing the suit. Lori saw the other team arriving and tries to cheer her sibling up.
"Lincoln! Lincoln! Lincoln! Let's go Lincoln!" She chanted gleefully. "Let's go Lincoln!"
Lincoln heard the crowd saying his name as it was his last resort to get the shot on the spot. As he inserted the arrow of the weapon, he exhaled his fumes calmly.
"You know what? Making someone cheered up, makes you feel comfortable and it makes you more determined to end a hard work. And that's what I did to Lincoln." Lori smiled at her confessional.
The cheers continue to roam inside his ear and he pulled the trigger instantly. After a silent pause, the crowd started applauding and also Lori who also began to yell cheerfully. Lincoln saw that the shot was perfect.
"Yes! I did it! Yes!" He then went over to the shield that has the arrow sealed on it and dashes on his way to Lori.
Lincoln & Lori – currently in 5th Place
"Make your way to the next Pit Stop, Castelo des Mouros… the last team to check in may be eliminated!" Lincoln reads the details.
"Oh my God! Let's go before they can catch up on us!" Lori commanded as they left the battleground.
At the cab, we see The Chipmunks at their taxi, talking about what just happened earlier.
"What?! Really?" Simon exclaimed loudly.
"Yeah, I just saw her face, it's like… bursting!" Alvin performed a booming voiceover and this made the genius chipmunk flinched.
"Alvin, you mean fuming, right?"
"Well, I just don't know the right words. Sorry." Alvin tucked his head in shame.
"Alvin… you know that you're still a good guy. And you had a right to be concerned on someone, especially to our friends." Simon gave a sympathetic speech. "And for me, you did the right thing. I know I saw Jeanette's face earlier too and I think you made her chilled out from her outbursts."
There was silence starting to kick off as Alvin looks over to Simon who was smiling.
"Alright, but I have a question. Are you jealous of what I did to Jeanette?"
Simon's eyes went extensively as he was asking a ridiculous and quickly denies the question. "No, I'm not! We're friends though, no feelings aside. But hey, what about you and Brit?"
Now Alvin's eyes go huge and quickly answers the question. "Well, Brittany?" He leaned his chin with his hands to think about that girl. "Nah, we're fine. But hey, I like her raging face over! That made me feel wonderful and—"
Alvin almost forgot that he was talking to his brother and quickly covers his mouth.
Simon chuckled. "I heard that! That's fine, we'll just talk about them soon." He peeked through the window and saw a duo that was running in the sidewalk that made him smirked.
The aforementioned duo was none other than The Imaginary Friends who just left out of their cab. When they saw a cab, they looked at each other to say something.
"Wait… is that another team?" Bloo began.
"I-I think it is," Mac replied.
"Aw, dude! Our cab is so bad that he cannot take us over there!"
"I know! But come on, we can run as hard as you can!"
"If this went over for miles, I would rather punch you than running for miles."
Mac frowned at the remark but soon changed when they started bolting up to follow the cab. The screen now reveals that The Chipmunks arrived at the park and followed the directions by the marked arrows.
"Hey… Simon." Alvin called his partner to get attention.
"Yeah?"
"Well, about what I said about Brittany earlier… I couldn't care less about her."
Simon was stupefied at the statement that Alvin gave and replied instantly. "Well, about Jeanette… I couldn't care less too! We're equal now!"
A quick pause went over as both of them cackled as they had the same views around their counterparts. They stopped laughing as they saw the Pit Stop at the top of the castle and they both stomp at the mat.
"Alvin and Simon… you are team number two!" Phil declared their placement.
Alvin & Simon – 2nd Place; arrived at 11:12pm
"Yes!" Alvin exclaimed as they gave each other fives.
"However…"
Both boys became hard solid as they heard Phil saying something bad (according to Simon).
"I have to inform you that Alvin's roadblock count has been exceeded to the limit of only six… and that's according to our production staff who were observing your performances throughout the race."
Alvin raises his hand to get attention to Phil and the attention has now gathered Phil. "What does that mean?"
"That means you will incur a 30-minute penalty…"
Both men gasped in reaction.
"…at the next leg. You'll be departing at your designated time but… with an additional half an hour on it! If Alvin continues to perform a Roadblock at the upcoming legs, your penalty time will keep increasing. But of course, that team member who exceeded their Roadblock performance can still perform but their chances of finishing will be at risk. Also, that means if you had the first strike of the Roadblock Count Overboarding and if you kept performing Roadblocks, your penalty time will be doubled. From 30 minutes to an hour, an hour into two hours and so on until to the leg before the final race; the penalty will consider as null and void at that point. Understand that?"
Both of them nodded and kept a scared look on their poor faces.
"Wow, that announcement from Phil was kind of…scary! And that… that's a real game changer right there." Simon said in the confessional.
Back at the Roadblock task, Marceline presses the trigger as it was her 5th attempt. Her session halted as she saw her arrow got speared in the shield. She grabs that shield and goes back to meet with Simon.
Marceline & Simon – currently in Last Place
"Make your way to the next Pit Stop… warning – the last team to check in, may be eliminated!" Marceline reading the clue.
"Come on, we're not going to be last!" Simon proclaimed.
They left the place to get their taxi.
"Castelo des Mouros?" Simon told the driver. "Drive faster!"
Another team showed up in the form of The Imaginary Friends to check in at the mat.
"Bloo and Mac… you are team number three!" Phil announces their position.
Bloo & Mac – 3rd Place; arrived at 11:20pm
Bloo breathed in relief. "Dang that taxi is so bad! But that's fine!" He lightly chuckled.
Phil also told them the same announcement that The Chipmunks received. They were in shocked to hear that as their teams also earned a 30-minute penalty.
"Really? A penalty for that? Come on! We hadn't performed any of our challenges badly!" Bloo whines at their confessional.
"I think we should plan more about this… Next leg, Bloo will perform the next Roadblock, we promise!" Mac said in the confessional.
"What? We? I didn't agree on that… but yeah, avoiding the penalty will be our mission right now."
Another team also arriving at the castle as a blonde girl arriving and her teammate followed.
"Lincoln and Lori… you are team number four!"
Lincoln & Lori – 4th Place; arrived at 11:35pm
The Siblings hugged one another as they felt comfortable after announcing their safe slot.
They were two teams left: The Adventurers and The Chipettes driving their way to the Pit Stop, trying to avoid elimination. Both teams were determined and worrying at the same time.
"If we get eliminated at the race, we still have our backs, right?" Simon questions Marceline.
"Yep." She nodded. "Perhaps, we can still hang out each other after our race is over."
Simon smile prevailed at his face.
"Come on! Drive faster, you punk!" Jeanette begging the driver in a malicious tone.
"Jeanette! What are you doing? You're pressuring our driver!" Brittany reacted and waves her hands.
"What? You don't want to get eliminated? If that's what you wanted to say all along, then I'm doing it for you!" Jeanette gnarled.
"But this is not the way that I wanted to!" The blonde chipette became snapped. "What is wrong with you? I never saw you like that forever! What's gotten into you, huh?"
Jeanette grunts and smirked in a devilish way. "Dream on, girl. You can't insist me! And also, you can't change me!"
The screen became doubled as two teams arrived at the same time, however, they didn't saw each other. They left their cab behind and started running.
"Follow that arrow!" Simon gestured his finger to the wooden sign.
The teams were huffing and puffing and they didn't stop their race as they were still counting on themselves.
"Yes! The pit stop! Ha-ha!" Jeanette laughed wickedly as Brittany's expression became distasted.
"There it is!" Marceline saw the glimpse of Phil.
The cameraman was running wild as he didn't clip the teams behind him, due to the suspense that they have gathered. After a few seconds, a team showed up in front of the host and stomped at the mat.
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"Brittany and Jeanette… you are team number five. You're still on the race." Phil reveals their placement.
Brittany & Jeanette – 5th Place; arrived at 11:48pm
However, both of them weren't satisfied with the placement. Jeanette crosses her arms and looked the other way to avoid eyeing with Brittany, as per Brittany sighed as she doesn't know how to cope with this situation while Phil watches them.
"What happened?"
"Hmmph! Let Brittany answer that." Jeanette immediately walks off the mat and added off-screen. "She knows all."
Phil now was looking at the remained teammate of the angry Jeanette and asked her the same question.
"I don't know, Phil! She just became snapped all of a sudden! I don't know what and I don't know why? And I'm-I'm…" She gulped in horror when she said. "…I think I'm scared at her right now!"
Brittany sighed at her confessional. "I just can't ask myself why is she acting like that? I'm now horrified at her… big change! I need someone to help me with this bad, bad situation…"
Unfortunately, The Adventurers arrived at the finish, a few minutes before the last team.
"Hey there, Phil!" Marceline was waving at the host.
"Welcome to… Portugal!" The local greeted them.
"Thanks!" Both of them gladly accepted the greeting.
"Marceline and Simon… you are the last team to arrive…" Phil said their placement. "And I'm sorry to tell you that you both have been eliminated from the race."
Marceline unexpectedly hangs her head into Simon's chest and we can hear the vampire weeping in a muffled tone.
"We really saw that one coming. She doesn't know how to remain calm at these kinds of situations." Simon said. "I know we had this one sealed on our memories! It was an awesome experience!" He smiled.
"I learned a lot of lessons and learned something important at this race and that it's to stay cool, even at the hardest time," Marceline said in the confessional.
"And that doesn't mean it's goodbye forever! This is goodbye for now…" Simon added compassionate to his comment.
The screen played their best moments of the race. From Marceline's cooking at the first leg to the snow mountain climbing and finishing first at the last leg.
They soon left the pit stop and walked off out of sight to end the episode.
SHORT END CREDITS
"Stay tuned for more scenes on the next episode!" Phil said in a voiceover as the screen fades to black.
"Next time on The Amazing Race…" Phil paused. "Teams landed on the rising sun!"
"Whoa! This is crazy!" Mac's eyes went wide as he scans his place.
"As teams go crazy at the crowd…"
"This is nuts! Like no different nut!" Karl exclaimed at the crowd spreading around them.
"Geez, how do you do this?" Lincoln was asking Lori.
Lori sighed. "I don't even know!"
"and Jeanette continues her flaming comments on Brittany!"
"You are nothing but a great disgrace on our team! Just keep moving, you numbnut!" Jeanette erupts more as she gave her a harsh criticism.
Brittany moaning and released a cry without tears as she covers her ears, muffling the disturbing verbal attacks of her sister.
"Pleaseee…. Make it stop!" She continues releasing worrying cries.
"And Alvin got fed up on the challenge!"
Alvin was trying to eat something as he straightaway gags on his throat and picked up a bucket to vomit. This made Simon worried at his brother as he covers his expression with his hand.
"You know that sound is not gonna be that good to hear…"
FULL END CREDITS
1st: Luke & Karl - Roadblocks: Luke 4, Karl 6
2nd: Alvin & Simon - Roadblocks: Alvin 7, Simon 3 [WILL BE PENALIZED AT THE NEXT LEG]
3rd: Bloo & Mac - Roadblocks: Bloo 3, Mac 7 [WILL BE PENALIZED AT THE NEXT LEG]
4th: Lincoln & Lori - Roadblocks: Lincoln 5, Lori 4
5th: Brittany & Jeanette - Roadblocks: Brittany 4, Jeanette 6
6th: Marceline & Simon - Roadblocks: Marceline 5, Simon 5 (ELIMINATED)
7th: Eileen & Margaret - Roadblocks: Eileen 3, Margaret 6 (ELIMINATED)
8th: Susan & Mary - Roadblocks: Susan 5, Mary 2 (ELIMINATED)
9th: Mr. Bean & Irma - Roadblocks: Mr. Bean 3, Irma 2 (ELIMINATED)
10th: Joey & Marky - Roadblocks: Joey 2, Marky 3 (ELIMINATED)
11th: Robin & Cyborg - Roadblocks: Robin: 2, Cyborg: 2 (ELIMINATED)
A/N: Wow, that was unfortunate for Marceline and Simon! Personally, they are one of my bets to win this but that sucks that they left early. Anyways, the next episode will probably be up this coming December. I'll see you soon!
~Ellu